A History of Western Political Thought (Paperback, Revised)

Contents:List of Biographies. Foreword. Part I: The Greeks 1. Ancient Greek Political Thought 2. Socrates and Plato 3. The Guardians of the State and Justice 4. Aristotle and the Science of PoliticsPart II: Romans and Roman Catholics: From Polis to Cosmopolis 5. Christian Cosmopolitan: St. Augustine's City of God 6. Christendom and its Law: St.Thomas AquinasPart III: Romans and Humanists: the Reinvention of Sovereignty 7. The Re-invention of Sovereignty: Marsilius of Padua 8. Machiavelli: The Prince and The Virtuous RepublicPart IV: The Theory of the Social Contract 9. The Rise and Extraordinary Persistence of the Theory of the Social Contract 10. Social Contract I: The Hobbesian Version 11. Social Contract II: The Lockean Version 12. Social Contract III: The Rousseauist VersionPart V: Enlightenment and the Development of the Modern State 13. The Modernity of the Modern State 14. The Politics of Enlightenment 15. Enlightenment and Government through Law: Montesquieu 16. The American Enlightenment: Jefferson, Crevecoeur, Hamilton, Jay, Madison, Paine 17. The Limitations of Enlightenment: Hume and BurkPart VI: The Rise of Liberalism 18. Liberalism Comes of Age: Bentham and John Stuart Mill 19. Liberalism in Maturity and Decline: Spencer, Sumner and Green Part VII: Reactions to Liberalism 1 20. Hegel: The State and Dialectic 21. Hegel and the Hegelian Context of MarxismPart VII: Reactions to Liberalism 2 22. Socialism Marxism and Other Socialisms 23. Social Democracy: Bernstein and Crosland 24. The Synthesis of Jacobinism and Marxism - Bolshevism: Lenin, Trotsky and StalinPart VIII: Reactions to Liberalism 3 25. Irrationalism and Anti-Rationalism 26. The Moral Exclusiveness of Nationalism: Herder 27. The Elitist Critique of Democracy: Pareto and Michels 28. Liberalism's Special Enemies: The Crowd and its Theorists 29. The Leader and his Crowd: Sigmund Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921) 30. Fascism, or Being Revolutionary without Being Marxist 31. Conservatism: Maurras and Oakeshott 32. Thinking about Thinking, and the Lapse into DiscoursesNotes. Index.